A little girl's father tells her a story about when she was born, comparing how her mother looked after her to the mothers of different animals. Suggested level: junior

"A warm and wryly amusing bedtime story about the bond between mothers and their babies. Holly's dad decides to tell her a bedtime story about the night she was born so Holly asks if she hatched out of an egg like a chicken. Dad tells her if she were a new chick, her mum would have fluffed up her feathers and sat on her to keep her warm. 'Your mother didn't do that'. They go through all the animals they can think of until Holly's dad finally tells her what her mother did do when she was born" --Global books In Print